Jaideep has a dual track record of successful international business leadership with blue chip companies such as Gartner, IDC and Dow Jones / News Corp as well as investing experience which has seen him back winners including Tenmarks, Fareye, Uniphore, Skit.ai, Pipecandy, Publicvibe, Tagbox, Mimyk, Clootrack and several others.
Since April 2022, he is Managing Partner at the Indian Angel Network Funds Division. Here, he invests seed and pre-series A focused funds to propel the startup ecosystem and generate alpha returns for Limited Partners who back the fund.
Previously, Jaideep has been the CEO of Mosaic Media Ventures; he led its acquisition by HT Media (NSE: HTMEDIA) in November 2020, and was then also the Business Head for the Mint newspaper business.
Mosaic was recognized as “A company with Great People Managers” by the Great Managers Institute and Forbes Magazine in 2018-19. In the past, he has been an advisor to CEOs of the investment and tech ecosystem. He has blogged, written and presented on various business and technology matters over the years, with this articles appearing in all major business newspapers in India.
Jaideep has also served on the Startup Council as well as the Business Transformation & Knowledge Management Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry, and mentors next gen leaders and entrepreneurs through the Young Leaders Council at the All India Management Association.
From 2011-17, he was Managing Director – International Data Corporation, India & South Asia. Under his leadership, IDC India was conferred the CIO Choice Award for ‘IT Advisor of the Year’ three years consecutively in 2014, 2015 & 2016. He has been awarded the ‘Leadership Award for Contribution to Market Research’ by the World Marketing Congress in 2014. He was also a founding member of the global Emerging Markets Research Council at IDC.
Before IDC, he was based in London, UK and worked at Gartner for over 5 years. During this time, he rose from a product and sales specialist role to Regional Vice President for EMEA Sales. In this role he drove a sales book in excess of $400m and was part of the Gartner EMEA leadership team. Prior to that, he was at Zensar Technologies’ where he spearheaded the set up to their Financial Services practice in Europe.
He is a graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Delhi University and holds an MBA degree from the Manchester Business School, UK. He enjoys reading, the occasional game of tennis and driving to remote parts of India.